Princelumide:
Don't buy because the vehicle is clean... The engine is around 500k upward...
Although it all depends on your choice...

Timopea:
My friend wants to sell for me for 1.6m and the engine is not good. Car is very clean, should I buy it and fix the engine ? I'm currently using a 2004 corolla

brightest5050:
Don't buy. What is a "clean car" with faulty mechanical parts. You would most likely spend more than it would cost you to purchase a Nigeria used or Toks as you would most likely repair more than the engine. Is the benz 4matic?

Manuella4ace:


If your sure its just an engine issue, negotiate with him well, Nigerian used of that car is above 2.5m

I prefer buying a car with a clean body no rust with bad engine, than buy a car with a good engine and body dented plus rust.

You can always negotiate because of the bad engine, when you purchase you swap engine. Also try a d make a concrete enquiry how much the engine clean toks would cost.


1.2m - 1.4m should be your negotiating power.

Timopea:
My friend wants to sell for me for 1.6m and the engine is not good. Car is very clean, should I buy it and fix the engine ? I'm currently using a 2004 corolla

homeboy205:
I hear the M274 is a factory defect in all C300, E300 GLC300


Better run. The piston always fail.


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Timopea:
No it's just c300 and the guy has reduced price to 1m

Timopea:
My friend wants to sell for me for 1.6m and the engine is not good. Car is very clean, should I buy it and fix the engine ? I'm currently using a 2004 corolla

Timopea:
My friend wants to sell for me for 1.6m and the engine is not good. Car is very clean, should I buy it and fix the engine ? I'm currently using a 2004 corolla

GAZZUZZ:


Let me inspect this vehicle for free for you.

After that you can decide if you want to buy it or not.


Anywhere in Nigeria , this offer expires 12midight today.

GAZZUZZ:


Let me inspect this vehicle for free for you.

After that you can decide if you want to buy it or not.


Anywhere in Nigeria , this offer expires 12midight today.

fineboynl:
What is with the engine? It doesn't make at all? Smoking? Knocking sounds, no power or what? He might be using a quack. How can he buy new engine and still doesn't work?

Karzzonly:
Could this be project car loading?

ThrottleHolic:


My opinion is to let this vehicle pass!

The C300 is a naturally problematic vehicle...this one already has problems.

There is no guarantee that you'll get a good replacement engine and there is also no guarantee that it is only the engine that is faulty, given this vehicle's tendency to fail and disappoint.

Keep to your Corolla for now and if you must buy and use a Mercedes, opt for a relatively more reliable one that is preferably foreign used, after running the VIN, inspecting it thoroughly and importantly, seeing that it is reasonably miled.

Do not willingly inherit another person's troubles.

ThrottleHolic:


My opinion is to let this vehicle pass!

The C300 is a naturally problematic vehicle...this one already has problems.

There is no guarantee that you'll get a good replacement engine and there is also no guarantee that it is only the engine that is faulty, given this vehicle's tendency to fail and disappoint.

Keep to your Corolla for now and if you must buy and use a Mercedes, opt for a relatively more reliable one that is preferably foreign used, after running the VIN, inspecting it thoroughly and importantly, seeing that it is reasonably miled.

Do not willingly inherit another person's troubles.

HeavenlyBang:


Honestly, this is pretty bad advice. It's all a numbers game, there can be plenty of value in a deal like this.

HeavenlyBang:


[s]Honestly, this is pretty bad advice. It's all a numbers game, there can be plenty of value in a deal like this[/s].

youngemperor:
This car is problematic. my friend has one, on one afternoon the car's dashboard refused to come on and it was EIS failure ( electronic ignition). And it will cost more than 200k. Gear lever not shifting smoothly, the car's part is fucking expensive. And it's his first car. I was seriously considering getting the c300. But being my first car,I have decided to go for 2012 Camry.

ThrottleHolic:


No, it isn't.

Jumping into a burning house with the intention of warming yourself will only lead one way.

And, we all know where.

Manuella4ace:


If your sure its just an engine issue, negotiate with him well, Nigerian used of that car is above 2.5m

I prefer buying a car with a clean body no rust with bad engine, than buy a car with a good engine and body dented plus rust.

You can always negotiate because of the bad engine, when you purchase you swap engine. Also try a d make a concrete enquiry how much the engine clean toks would cost.


1.2m - 1.4m should be your negotiating power.

ThrottleHolic:


You decided wisely.

Of all the Mercedeses, that one is one of the most problematic.

Even seasoned Mercedes users who are honest will tell you this.

It isn't a vehicle for a newbie or worse, one who has no experience of the challenges of Germany

HeavenlyBang:


No, we don't know where. If the C300 was a bad car, there wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of them on Nigerian roads.

And yes, I drive a car based on the W204 chassis, so I think I know what I'm saying here.

For someone who claims to be "The Most Authoritative Auto Advice Website For Nigerian Drivers", you sound like you don't even know what you're saying.

Sit this one out, lad.

buygala:


The way some of you spew so much ignorance with so much confidence is actually amazing



People like u should be used as social study specimen of the know-nothings who feel they know it all


If I ask you why a vehicle you say is so unreliable is used as taxis in many cities across the world, you go begin gallivant

ThrottleHolic:


Now, this is getting interesting

Nigerians who know nothing about a thing are the first to call another ignorant. It is a typical Nigerian trait, learned over time.

Accordingly thus, your not so subtle jabs no shock me.

Now, let me school you:

1. Mercedes gives Taxi drivers incredibly good deals, provided the vehicles they buy from them are used exclusively for the taxi business, for at least a year. It is a PR strategy and folks like you buy in. This is why the E Klasse is offered on various trims there exclusively to fit the taxi reality.

This has nothing to do with reliability. Nothing!

2. Many Germans, taxi drivers inclusive are now looking to the Asians or the Koreans. Explain why and abeg, no gallivant

3. That C300 that is so 'reliable' in your books was recalled for self igniting, even when parked. Many examples here abound of folks who bought it, drove it, parked and only came out to meet flames and ashes. Lagos, Enugu, Benin, Abuja...the story was and still is the same. Is that what you DARE call reliable?

4. Finally, lets see both JD Power ratings and Consumer Report for where your 'reliable' Benz is placed, year after year for the past decade.

Will you be shocked if I told you that an ordinary KIA is more reliable than your Benz?

To shock you further, do you know that all these ratings agree that Mercedes is well below industry average in terms of reliabilty?

Abeg, Baba, next time no talk wetin you no sabi anything about!